Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus scientists in many fields tend to emphasise the practical pay-off of their research . |
| 2 | High average wind speeds tend to stunt the upward growth of plants and encourage the lateral growth of dwarf forms , e.g. of Calluna vulgaris or Juniperus communis , though prostrate forms of the former are not encountered as frequently as expected on exposed mountain plateaux . |
| 3 | Now by impartment , we mean , we mean , enabling , we mean helping the voluntary sector to be more ef effective and efficient in the use of its scarce resources . |
| 4 | Within lesson structures of this kind , teachers do not , in fact , orientate themselves so much to the needs of individual students , but tend to treat the whole class as a kind of ‘ collective student ’ . |
| 5 | Repeat using the left leg . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , it is his questions , his ways of telling and , for want of a better phrase , his search in life that make Lepage the avant-garde artist he is . |
| 7 | There will , however , always be those who tend to see the negative side and may well suggest you ‘ do n't lose weight too quickly or you 'll look old ’ or ‘ you 'll only put it back on twice as fast if you lose it quickly ’ . |
| 8 | Here make denotes the direct involvement of its agent in the production of the comments : it is the " Kohnstamm-negative subjects " themselves who emit comments in ( 136 ) above . |
| 9 | If there are many cable crossovers the loose tension will hardly show and will certainly make the knitting easier , but where there are few cables and a lot of plain knitting the looseness of the plain knitting will take over and make the work look faulty . |
| 10 | Golf enthusiasts flock to enjoy the 18-hole course at the nearby Wildmoos , three miles away , and from mid June to mid September the tourist Office provides transport from the resort to the golf course ( AS20 each way : Summer ‘ 89 price ) . |
| 11 | We intend to implement the new Quality Framework in session 1992/3 . |
| 12 | Such results as are available tend to support the associative view . |
| 13 | Politicians tend to support the traditional approach to budgeting . |
| 14 | Professor Nils Shakkabaek of Copenhagen University , who co-ordinated the study , says that a corresponding increase in genito-urinary abnormalities and incidents of testicular cancer tend to support the environmental conclusion . |
| 15 | Several pamphlets issued recently by the Publications Department of the Cooperative Union are eminently suitable for this purpose ( 1 ) ‘ United action : Trades unionists and cooperators combine to meet the capitalist menace ’ , ( 2 ) ‘ Cooperation and Labour unrest ’ , ( 3 ) ‘ Cooperators and reconstruction ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ It is a particular shame for Neil because there were far worse things going on in the game but some people only want to see the dark side of him . |
| 17 | " We want to see the Chief Rabbit , " said Hazel . |
| 18 | Leading the first contingent will be Japan and Norway , which want to see the current moratorium on commercial whaling lifted . |
| 19 | I want to see the right kind of deal for electricity consumers in Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | Novels are much more difficult to place and from a new writer , publishers normally want to see the whole book . |
| 21 | ‘ The only way we can know that people want to see the Fun Factory becoming a success is if they vote with their feet and come to a meeting to show their support . ’ |
| 22 | I want to see the National Health Service properly financed ’ . |
| 23 | Thus we want to see the representational role of the newly juxtaposed elements as recognisably preserved within , and thereby helping to determine the new representational role of , the new signal in which they occur . |
| 24 | We want to see the British standard on vehicle security adopted as a compulsory European Community directive . |
| 25 | Only if you want to go the whole way and produce typeset quality data will you ever need to consider anything better than VGA . |
| 26 | Sooner or later I want to acquire the full range of British birds of prey , and the next bird I hope to work with is a goshawk . |
| 27 | With continued cell proliferation and development of new crypts , colonies enlarge , become visible to the naked eye , then ultimately coalesce to restore the mucosal layer . |
| 28 | President , colleagues , I am so proud and honoured to receive this gold badge , more so because this is the award given to me by you President , I do want to thank a number of people I also want to thank the regional secretary , Steve , who thank you , Steven , for your support and guidance . |
| 29 | How I long to see the black kid depicted as something other than the tam-donning , dope-smoking , unemployed gang member , structuring his life around reggae music , blues parties , and thieving , and phrasing his life 's ambitions in terms of one day to the next with little or no positive orientation to the world and an outlook flavoured by prejudice and ignorance . |
| 30 | And you put up with his way of making decisions for you , even if , one day , you wake up and want to wear the green skirt he hates , watch Morse which he ca n't stand … |